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by ****** » Wed Apr 21, 2010 8:18 am

The Review Group is covering X-Men Forever Annual #1 and we want YOU to post a review.

Are you as excited for this week's X-Men Forever Annual as Jude Terror is? Do you want to write a review for it and discuss the book in depth with other members of the Outhouse community? Yes, yes of course you do.

See that 'Post A Comment' button a little ways down the page? Click it already! Follow the tips in the first post and by this time next week you can see your review posted along side your fellow reviewers here on the front page of The Outhouse just like everyone who reviewed last week's pick, Kill Shakespeare #1 .

The fine folks at Marvel provided The Outhouse with a preview and you can see it here .

X-Men Forever Annual #1

WRITER: Chris ClaremontPENCILS: Sana Takeda

JOIN COMICS LEGEND CHRIS CLAREMONT AS HE CONTINUES TO REDEFINE THE X-MEN UNIVERSE IN HIS OWN VISION. One of the most explosive revelations of X-Men Forever #1 was the unconsummated and clandestine affair between Logan and Jean Grey. Now, Claremont takes you deep into the intimate history of this unsung love between two of the most popular X-Men—and gives insight to the betrayed heart of Cyclops! DON’T MISS THIS X-MEN FOREVER EVENT! Rated A …$4.99

But wait, there's more!Eyjafjallajökull is a jerk! As a result, anyone who's comics fix has been interrupted due to the volcano is invited to post a review of any comic they can get their hands on. The latest issue of 2000AD maybe? How about an old Chris Claremont X-Men back issue? It's a Reviewer's Choice week for everyone outside of North America, you can review whatever you want!

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The Review Group is covering X-Men Forever Annual #1 and we want YOU to post a review.

Are you as excited for this week's X-Men Forever Annual as Jude Terror is? Do you want to write a review for it and discuss the book in depth with other members of the Outhouse community? Yes, yes of course you do.

See that 'Post A Comment' button a little ways down the page? Click it already! Follow the tips in the first post and by this time next week you can see your review posted along side your fellow reviewers here on the front page of The Outhouse just like everyone who reviewed last week's pick, Kill Shakespeare #1 .

The fine folks at Marvel provided The Outhouse with a preview and you can see it here .

X-Men Forever Annual #1

WRITER: Chris ClaremontPENCILS: Sana Takeda

JOIN COMICS LEGEND CHRIS CLAREMONT AS HE CONTINUES TO REDEFINE THE X-MEN UNIVERSE IN HIS OWN VISION. One of the most explosive revelations of X-Men Forever #1 was the unconsummated and clandestine affair between Logan and Jean Grey. Now, Claremont takes you deep into the intimate history of this unsung love between two of the most popular X-Men—and gives insight to the betrayed heart of Cyclops! DON’T MISS THIS X-MEN FOREVER EVENT! Rated A …$4.99

But wait, there's more!Eyjafjallajökull is a jerk! As a result, anyone who's comics fix has been interrupted due to the volcano is invited to post a review of any comic they can get their hands on. The latest issue of 2000AD maybe? How about an old Chris Claremont X-Men back issue? It's a Reviewer's Choice week for everyone outside of North America, you can review whatever you want!

"I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright.I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive.I wish you enough pain so that the smallest joys in life appear much bigger.I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting.I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess.I wish enough "Hello's" to get you through the final "Good-bye.."

Outhouse Editor

Well, that was a much more pleasant experience then the last issue, so Fly Goes By.

The art is amazing. The romantic scenes are handled nicely, but once the Hand shows up and then even more so when the team shows up to save the day, the book becomes dynamic and the art compels the reader to keep reading, making the second half of the book fly by. However, while Takeda provides brilliant and beautiful art for close up or intimate scenes and great action sequences, the look is morphed and awkward when a panel pans out.

The gist of the plot is funny things are happening and Fury hires Logan and Jean to go do reconnaissance somewhere in the South Pacific. Unfortunately, a bunch of security devices seem to be playing with the psychic's powers, or is it something more sinister.

The writing is better this time around, even if there are groan inducing lines like "We've no one to save but ourselves." Other than a few clunky lines like that, it doesn't seem to be the relentless cheese fest of the last issue I read for the RG a while back.

[spoiler]My only real gripe with the book is that there is not much explanation given for the brainwashing done to Logan, much less how Jean breaks free of it. However, when a device is that weakly employed the stupid love will save us all way out of it is much more believable, if not any less exasperated sigh worthy.[/spoiler]

This was not a great comic, but it was not a horrible cheese filled nostalgia fest either, it felt fresh and new. It is easy to see why someone might be enamored with a book with this much charm. That being said, it still really isn't my thing.

Outhouse Editor

Well, that was a much more pleasant experience then the last issue, so Fly Goes By.

The art is amazing. The romantic scenes are handled nicely, but once the Hand shows up and then even more so when the team shows up to save the day, the book becomes dynamic and the art compels the reader to keep reading, making the second half of the book fly by. However, while Takeda provides brilliant and beautiful art for close up or intimate scenes and great action sequences, the look is morphed and awkward when a panel pans out.

The gist of the plot is funny things are happening and Fury hires Logan and Jean to go do reconnaissance somewhere in the South Pacific. Unfortunately, a bunch of security devices seem to be playing with the psychic's powers, or is it something more sinister.

The writing is better this time around, even if there are groan inducing lines like "We've no one to save but ourselves." Other than a few clunky lines like that, it doesn't seem to be the relentless cheese fest of the last issue I read for the RG a while back.

[spoiler]My only real gripe with the book is that there is not much explanation given for the brainwashing done to Logan, much less how Jean breaks free of it. However, when a device is that weakly employed the stupid love will save us all way out of it is much more believable, if not any less exasperated sigh worthy.[/spoiler]

This was not a great comic, but it was not a horrible cheese filled nostalgia fest either, it felt fresh and new. It is easy to see why someone might be enamored with a book with this much charm. That being said, it still really isn't my thing.